Peninsular Kingdoms of the Middle Ages  (20073)

Degree/study:Degree in Humanities
Year: 3º-4º
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages:spanish
Teaching Staff: Víctor Farías Zurita

1. Presentation of the subject

 

The course aims to study the history of the medieval Iberian Peninsula from the particular perspective of having been for nearly ten centuries the framework of an unprecedented interaction of human groups that professed one of the three great monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity or Islam. We will focus on studying in detail the particular features of this complex interaction and changes that the coexistence of Jews, Christians and Muslims underwent over the centuries in the Iberian Peninsula. In addition, we propose to review critically as historians from different schools have portrayed this coexistence and which changes have proposed to highlight the originality of an experience that began with the Muslim conquest of the Christian kingdom called Toledo in the seventh century which ended with the expulsion of Jews and Moorish of the Christian kingdoms between the fifteenth and seventeenth, respectively.

 

2. Competences to be attained

 

2.1. Transferable skills

 

• Develop the ability to think historically.

• Develop the capacity for analysis and synthesis.

• Develop critical reasoning against the historical becoming.

• Develop skills in the students' oral and written language.

• Develop the necessary habits for teamwork.

• Develop the ability to recognize the social and cultural diversity of human beings in history.

 

 

2.2. Specific competences

 

• Ability to manage and process the information that historical witnesses and the studies of historians offer.

· Ability to face critically the past and present.

• Ability to argue the main social, economic, political and cultural medieval processes of the Hispanic Middle Ages.

• Ability to argue the specific aspects discussed during the course.

 

 

 

3. Contents

 

Presentation

 

Class 1. Presentation of the course. What is waiting for us

 

Class 2. Introduction. About coexist and coexistence

 

 

First part.  Islam in the West: Al-Andalus (from VIII to XII century)

Class 3. Warriors in the name of Allah. The conquest of dar al-Islam

Class 4. Jews have become powerful and arrogant. Jews in Al-Andalus

Class 5. Try to follow Jesus, God bless. Christians in Al-Andalus

Class 6. You have to love an Arab girl. Coexistence.

Class 7. They studied Greek science assiduously. Learn from each other.

Class 8. Sammi Al-alayka. The limits of coexistence.

 

Second part. The kingdoms of the Crusades (from thirteenth to fourteenth century)

Class 9. Moorish were so transgressed. The conquests of the Crusaders.

Class 10. Moors and their Moorish quarter. Muslims in the Hispanic kingdoms.

 

Class 11. Jews and their Jewish communities. The Jews in the Hispanic kingdoms.

Class 12. Not only Jews but also many Christian friends. The coexistence in the Hispanic kingdoms.

Class 13. My master, the Jew. Learning from other

Class 14. If the Moorish would lie with a Christian virgin. The boundaries of the coexistence

 

Third part. The Christian monarchy (from fifteenth to seventeenth century)

Class 15. The Catholic sovereigns. The new monarchy

Class 16. Bad Jews. The other discriminated people.

Class 17. Become Christians or die. The violence that purifies

Class 18. So your posh hood never has had it or it hasn't now. The slob people

Class 19. The wish that they never come back. The expulsion of Jews.

Class 20. So Moorish people as in Algiers. The Moorish

 

*The full version with the sections: 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology, and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

 

 

 

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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